Description:
Top Crop, part of the TWK group, has the following vacancy available: Assistant Production Manager: Nursery at Crammond, KwaZulu-Natal.Responsibilities and Duties
- Managing the production of subtropical Eucalyptus and ornamental cuttings
- Overseeing grass vegetative production
- Ensuring quality compliance with existing systems
- Monitoring climate control in rooting tunnels
- Supervising sizing and sorting of forestry cuttings and seedlings
- Ensuring minimum stock levels are maintained
- Overseeing grow-out sections (irrigation and disease control)
- Leading a team of 25 employees in production
- Recording and capturing data in a nursery management system
- Planning and assigning daily work to labour teams
- Ensuring tasks meet quality standards
- Managing rooting, hardening, and growing-out areas (irrigation, misting, and disease control)
- Assisting with nursery maintenance and infrastructure projects when needed
Qualifications and Skills
- Diploma in Horticulture or Agricultural production
- At least 5 years’ experience in a similar management position
- Driver’s license (Code 08)
- Bilingual (English and isiZulu)
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Weekend duties and public holidays when required
*The company can expire job adverts at any time at their own discretion.
Requirements:
- Managing the production of subtropical Eucalyptus and ornamental cuttings
- Overseeing grass vegetative production
- Ensuring quality compliance with existing systems
- Monitoring climate control in rooting tunnels
- Supervising sizing and sorting of forestry cuttings and seedlings
- Ensuring minimum stock levels are maintained
- Overseeing grow-out sections (irrigation and disease control)
- Leading a team of 25 employees in production
- Recording and capturing data in a nursery management system
- Planning and assigning daily work to labour teams
- Ensuring tasks meet quality standards
- Managing rooting, hardening, and growing-out areas (irrigation, misting, and disease control)
- Assisting with nursery maintenance and infrastructure projects when needed
- Diploma in Horticulture or Agricultural production
- At least 5 years’ experience in a similar management position
- Driver’s license (Code 08)
- Bilingual (English and isiZulu)
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Weekend duties and public holidays when required
31 Mar 2025;
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